Typical price: £300
What is it: A hard drive & DVD recorder
What we think: Toshiba's RD-XS34 is at the forefront of the recording world. Not only does it manage to pack in every feature imaginable, it makes it all fairly easy to use. The new 160GB hard drive offers 80 hours of good quality footage as well
Toshiba RD-XS34 Full Specification
General
| Product type | DVD/hard drive recorder |
|---|---|
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 430 x 58 x 333 mm |
| Weight | 4.9 kg |
| Colour | Silver |
| Included cables | Composite, Aerial Loopthrough |
| Included accessories | Remote Control, Remote IR Sender |
DVD player/recorder
| DVD type | DVD recorder |
|---|---|
| Playable media | MP3, WMA, JPEG, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM |
| Recordable media | DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM |
| Recording quality modes | 36 |
| Play list editing | Yes |
| Timeslip function | Yes |
Hard drive recorder
| Hard drive size | 160 GB |
|---|---|
| Freeview tuners | 1 |
| Play list editing | Yes |
Audio system
| Digital audio format | Dolby Digital, DTS, Linear PCM |
|---|---|
| On-board decoding | No |
Connections
| Composite | 1 input, 1 output |
|---|---|
| S-video | 1 input, 1 output |
| RGB Scart | 1 input, 1 output |
| Component | Yes |
| DVI | No |
| HDMI | No |
| Stereo audio | 1 input, 1 output |
| Optical audio | 1 output |
| Coaxial audio | 1 output |
| i.Link/Firewire | Yes |
| Aerial | 1 input, 1 output |
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